The trailer for the Oscar winner's long-delayed film, Winnie Mandela, has finally hit the Web and finds Hudson taking on the iconic role of South African leader Nelson Mandela's wife in a biopic of her life.

The film, which costars Terrence Howard as the legendary anti-apartheid activist, chronicles Mandela's then-missus from her childhood and marriage to Mandela through his incarceration as a political prisoner and her own struggle to tear down the racist South African state.

But it's reemergence could not be more timely in light of Nelson Mandela's recent health setbacks. At the age of 95, South Africa's first black president was hospitalized on June 8 with a recurring lung infection that left him initially close to death in critical but stable condition.

But thankfully Mandela's condition has since improved, and South Africans and the world continue to pray for a speedy recovery.